Ship o' the Dead (E8): No-one believes Jim Hawkins when he tells a tale of seeing a ship in a bay with a dead crew. Jim and Long John Silver later discover that the Spanish have taken over the ship and slain the crew in order to seize a load of gold bullion. It features Robert Newton, Connie Gilchrist, Kit Taylor, Grant Taylor, Eric Reiman, John Brunskill, and Harry Hambleton. The Adventures of Long John Silver is a television series about the Long John Silver character from Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island. It was made in 1954 in colour in Australia for the American and British markets before the development of Australian television.